Unwanted teenage attention.

unseenfootage

I'm a bit weirded out about something that happened a few days ago on my council housing estate.

I'm a mature gent in my late 40s and coming home from college the other day I was about 15 meters from my door when a couple of young girls were walking in my direction. One is about twelve years old and the other slightly younger. I've spoken to the twelve year old once, when a few young girls came to my door for a chat. I'm not a white person, so I guess curiosity got the better of them. Another time, there was a dog fight outside my door and I helped stop it. A few hours later I returned from the shops and she commented about the fight and how the neighbors should report the dog's owner and so on.

Nevertheless, today, as I walked past the two girls the younger one says to me, "She loves you."
I glanced at the twelve year old , her jaw dropped in embarrassment and I, feeling equally embarrassed, muttered "Who me?," and walked on.

As a foreigner, I do not understand this at all. I can understand this happening to a student teacher in a school but what possessed this young girl to say something like this to me.

What should I do? I haven't mentioned anything to my wife. She has been away for a few days. Should I say something to her?

Merkin

They are young kids taking the p1ss, there's nothing TO do. If you think they're trouble makers just don't engage with them or speak to them.

foxy06

School girl crush. For gods sake don't encourage it!
Is flattering though im sure

implausible

unseenfootage wrote: »

Nevertheless, today, as I walked past the two girls the younger one says to me, "She loves you."
I glanced at the twelve year old , her jaw dropped in embarrassment and I, feeling equally embarrassed, muttered "Who me?," and walked on.

As a foreigner, I do not understand this at all. I can understand this happening to a student teacher in a school but what possessed this young girl to say something like this to me.

She wanted to embarrass her friend, job done. Ignore, ignore, ignore.

meoklmrk91

Yup I agree with everyone else, the girl was just trying to embarrass her friend, she could have a crush on you or not either way it doesn't matter, just make sure you don't encourage it.

unseenfootage

Well this is definitely not something that I would encourage. Next time I spot her I'll take a detour.

The mind still boggles that a 12 year old can have a crush on a man in his forties.

_dublinlad_

Why take a detour if you see them again? You have done nothing wrong. Its just kids being kids and trying to embarrass each other. It is completely irrelevant whether the girl dose in fact have a crush on you. If you see them again and they say something, just smile and walk on by.

unseenfootage

^ It does sound like an overreaction, but, as a foreigner this is a bit weird for me and although I'm doing nothing wrong I'm afraid that if this carries on and some neighbour gets wind of it, they might think some funny things.

December2012

unseenfootage wrote: »

Well this is definitely not something that I would encourage. Next time I spot her I'll take a detour.

The mind still boggles that a 12 year old can have a crush on a man in his forties.

She might not realise your age - when you're a teenager sometimes anybody who is over 20 is "old" and can get all lumped in together.

She may have commented anything about you, and the friend just jumped on it to embarrass her.

Don't worry about it.

daithi1970

I wouldnt avoid them as kids can pick up on stuff like that..the best thing is
to go about your daily routine and just ignore them.

daithi

unseenfootage

^ A couple of years ago I had trouble with some small boys who were egging my windows , ringing my bell and running off and all sorts of annoying stuff. Typical anti social behaviour. Rather then cuss at them, I would voice my displeasure ,engage them and appeal to them to stop annoying my wife and I. Then one day they came to apologize and we became friendly. On one occasion I cooked some curry for them and then their mums started buying it from me. So maybe word got around that I'm a nice decent guy, unlike some of the neighbours who go all mental with these kids when they misbehave.

Big Bag of Chips

OP, starting multiple threads in a short period of time is not permitted. Have a look at the forum charter which is stickied at the top of the forum before you post again. Make sure you know the rules of posting here.

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As you now have 2 threads running, I will close this one.